Guinea+-+Sebastian+Handal

World Geography Around the World Project Guinea Sebastian Handal

Guinea Introduction Guinea is a country in the western part of Africa, and they had an authoritarian rule since they gained there independence from France in 1958. When the first president died, the military took control of the country and were in power until 1993 they had former elections again. Another president was elected and died in 2008 when past events repeated. Military took contol again over Guinea but in 2010 they had there first free and fair democratic elections since independence. Guinea has a total of 245,857 km2, that is slightly smaller than Oregon. __ Guinean Statistics __ Population: 10,884,958

Birth Rate: 36.6 births/1000 population

Death Rate: 10.19 deaths/1000 population Net Migration Rate: 0 migrants/ 1000 population Infant Mortality Rate: 59.04 deaths/ 1000 live births Population Growth Rate: 2.641% Life Expectancy: 58.61 years Doubling Time: 26.5 years

Guienean General Characteristics Guinea has a very high birth rate, this makes the 0-4 population very high. Guinea is avery poor country like most of its neighbors in Africa, so Guinea goes to the category of LEDC (Less Economically Developed Countries). The death rate is average but has a big impact on the total growth rate and because the situation in Africa, its common to have HIV problems that reduce the poulation or increase the overal death rate. As you can see the net migration rate is 0, this means that the immigrants and the emigrants are equal and the same people that are living are the same that there are entering. The infant moratlity is very high, its do to the lack of health care and poverty in Guinea, so they have countless children dying at an early age. Guinea's total population is about 11,000 million, although it has a high death rate and a low life expectancy, it has a pretty fast population growth rate actually. Its doubling time is about 26 and a half years, this menas that the total population will take 26 years to multiply itself by two. It seems that Guinea life is just like its fellow aftican countries with high death rates, low life expectancies and very, very litlle immigrants. the predominant religion is muslim and they have various popultion issues like HIV problems, poverty and low health care. Also there is much more abundant youth than old people because there life expectancy is low but they have high birth rates. We can see that the population pyrimid has the perfect shape of a physical pyrimid. Gallery  Hiv population problem Guinean poverty living Conarky the capital Reference
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gv.html


 * http://www.indexmundi.com/guinea/death_rate.html